Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

Future Text Lab: Explored the tension between sitting and moving in XR knowledge spaces, peripheral semantic multiplexing, second-hand gestural modifiers, and whether we're in our 1962 or 1968 moment of augmented thought. #XR #SpatialComputing
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Feel free to join us later today in our Open Office Hour:
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What YouTube suggested I do next. Crazy.

Future Text Lab: Can today's XR interfaces be our generation's punch cards? We explored generative writing, core vs. contextual space, and what Engelbart's 5-year mission would look like now.

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#XR #KnowledgeWork #GenerativeWriting

Augmented Text Tools. Minimalist writing, powerful tools Augmented Text tools offer a new ecosystem for writing, reading and interacting with text. Author is a writing app for Mac which makes citations and concept mapping easier than ever before. Reader is ...

You should feel free to try Author :-) www.augmentedtext.info

Hah!

Absolutely!

#BookSky

This looks interesting...

We will look at ‘generative writing’, where writing does not just record pre-formed thoughts but generates new understanding through the act of writing itself, in Core & Contextual environments

Join us online today, 13th of April.

8:30-10:30 Pacific | 11:30-1:30 Eastern | 4:30-6:30 UK | 5:30-7:30 CEST
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Yesterday's session: Spatial nodes should furl, unfurl & not scroll. The HyperCard moment for XR knowledge work is close — but we're still finding the metaphors. #SpatialComputing #XR #KnowledgeWork

#FutureLabhttps://futuretextlab.info/2026/03/24/april-6th-2026/

'best of both words' YouTube video by Frode Hegland (Augmented Text)

Perspective on what might be useful to practically work in XR. To kick of discussion today at futuretextlab.info/2026-cal/
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Could you explain further?

We have spent decades naming what we do with information. We read. We write. We search. We annotate. These words carry enormous weight — they encode centuries of cognitive practice, technology, and culture. But when we put on a headset and step into extended reality to work with knowledge, something happens that none of those words adequately describes. And the absence of a word for it is not a minor inconvenience. It is a central problem.

Working in XR is not really reading or writing in the traditional sense, it is ‘born digital’ in an entirely new dimension. We look at addressing what this might mean. Feel free to join us.

Monday 6th of April
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ICE and War Funding Can Now Become the Latest Excuse to Gut the Social Safety Net Congressional Republicans have been musing about the possibility of a second reconciliation...

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Can XR help us think with text, not just read it? The session explored spatial knowledge environments, reading science, and the tension between human novelty-seeking and computational consistency.
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#TextForThought #XR #SpatialComputing #KnowledgeWork #FutureOfText

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals.

And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked.

And then the DEI office was killed.

And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

Future Text Lab: Exploring what knowledge interaction in XR truly is — not reading, not writing, but spatial navigation. From flow states to LLM verbosity and cave paintings to the Vatican, the group reached for a language that doesn't yet exist.
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Perspective

Art by @timpsingleton

It’s as easy as shutting your effin mouth!

And did I mention… it’s free?!

To understand is to stand among. The word itself has this within it. Old English understandan meant “to be in the midst of,"“ to be surrounded by.  To know something is not to possess it but to be in relationship. A flat document gives you knowledge as a list of propositions. A spatial map gives you knowledge as a landscape you inhabit. When you move through the Map in Author — reaching toward a node, drawing out its connections, repositioning yourself relative to what you find — you are not browsing information. You are understanding it. The interaction is not a feature, it is the epistemology. Interaction is not a convenience layer on top of understanding. At the cellular level, interaction is how understanding is physically made.

To understand is to stand among.

We're choosing topics today.

Join us:
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Well said. Well written. I wonder what Socrates would have said to that sentiment?

Future Text Lab: Can knowledge be sculpted to fit a new medium — or does it need to be reimagined entirely? From AI concept extraction to spatial bookshelves and the neuroscience of memory, today's session asked: if you can't take it with you, what's the point? futuretextlab.info/2026/03/16/m...

Why on earth should the North Atlantic Treaty Organization support a war started by one of its members in the Strait of Hormuz?...

Today in the Open Office Hour we'll kick off our discussions around the movement of knowledge and the movement of thought. Feel free join us.
4:30-6:30 UK For information:
futuretextlab.info/2026-welcome/ and for today:
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BBC Radio 4 - Understand, How Reading Made Us, 1. How Reading Made Our Brains Did learning to read rewire your brain? With James Marriott.

Very much worth a listen.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We explored annotation as knowledge infrastructure — from Jamie Blustein's field study of how students mark up paper to Frode's vision of annotations as spatial knowledge objects in XR. #FutureOfText #Annotation #XR #KnowledgeManagement #SpatialComputing
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